Advertising apparatus.



F.00NGANNON.

ADVERTISING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 21, 1912.

1,063,010, Patented May 27,1913.

KENO SHOE INVENTOI? $2? a? By j an ATTORNEVS FRANK CONCANNON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

ADVEB TISING APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 27, 1913.

Application filed August 21, 1912. Serial No. 716,138.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, FRANK OONCANNON,

, citizen of the United States, and residing at New York, in the'coanty of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Advertis- Apparatus, of-which the following is a specification, such as Vwill enable those skilled make and use the same. 7

This ,invention relates to advertising devices or ap aratus, and the object thereof is to provi e an improved device or apparatus of this class, made in the form of a truck or other vehicle and adapted to be moved about over the streets of a town or city, and which is particularly designed to attract attention and which is alsodesigned for the advertisement of a number of separate articles arranged classified order and mount-ed in connection with an endless belt device which is constantly moving and whereby the specific advertisements are constantly changing.

The invention is fully,.di'sclosed in. the following specification of which the accompanying drawing forms a part, in which the separate parts of my invention are designated by suitable reference characters in each of the views, and in which Figure 1 is an end view of a device or apparatus involving my invention, part of the construction being in sect-iong-Fig. 2 a partial side view thereof with part of the construction broken away;Fig. 3 a seci'ionnl riew of a sign plate housing which I employ in connection with the endless belt which forms a' part of the apparatus, and showing one of the sign plates thereon, and Fig. 4 a face view of one of said sign plates.

In the practice of my invention. I provide a suitable truck or similar device a involving axles b, only one of which is shown, said axles being provided with wheels 6 and in practice, the truck may be propelled or moved about in any desired way, or by any suitable means.

Mounted on. connected with, or secured to the axles b is a body 0 comprising, in the form of construction shown, a bottom part c and a top part 0 and the sidesof the bottom part c, in the form of construction shown, are inclined inwardly and upwardly, and the sides of the top part c are vertical and parallel, and mounted in the top p0rin the art 'to which it appertains to tion of the top part is a horizontal shaft d,

and mounted in the bottom part 0 is a horizontal shaft e, and the top part 0 consists of a. suit-able frame involving vertically and equally spaced side members 0* which divide the sides of saidtop part into the vertical panels or spaces 0 The shaft d is provided with a plurality of pairs of sprocket wheels d spaced to cor-- respond with the veriically arranged panels or spaces 0 and the s aft 6 isprovide with similarly spaced sprocket wheels e, and mounted on each of these pairs of sprocket wheels is an endless chain belt device f provided with sign plate housings g, the backs of which are provided with ears 9 whereby, they are pivoted to the endless-belt devices f, as shown at 9 The housings g are also provided with horizontal front openingsg,

and placed in each of said housings is a sign plate h the face of which is provided with two separate advertisements h and h, said advertisements being reversed, as shown in Fig. 4, and being both of. the same classification, and the movement of the plates'fi in the housings g is approximately equal to the transverse width of the separate advertisements on the plates h and the openings g in the front of the housings.

At the top of the top portion 0 of the body 0 is a horizontal stationarycasing i which is circular in cross section and open at the bottom, and in which the sprocketwheels d and the endless belt devices f are adapted to turn, and it will also be seen that the shaft e is inclosed in the bottom part 0- of the body 0, as are also the sprocket wheels e and the endless belt devices f with the 'sign plate housings 9 turn in the bot-- tom portion 0 of the body a.

The shaft e is provided at one end with a beveled, gear a" which meshes with a corresponding gear e on a vertically arranged shaft h provided at its lower end with a large beveled gear h which meshes with a smaller beveled gear h on one of the axles,

and by means of this construction, when the truck is moved about the endless belt devices f will he turned by the sprocket wheels (Z and e and the sign plate housings 9 will be moved vertically through the panels or spaces 0 and the 51 as on the plates h may be clearly seen and read, as indicated in Fig 2.

he sign plate housings g are equally spaced on the endless belt devices 1 and as they move throimh the spaces or panels 0 fill said panels 0 spaces, and the sign plates h are of less transverse dimensions than the housings and are freely movable in said as the housings move downwardly QIhlJllB I opposite side of said frame the other s1gns on said sign plates may be read, as will be readily understood.

The opposite sides of the casing 71 at the top of the part c of the body a are provided with headings or classifications of various articles to be eaten, drunk or worn, these headings in the arraiigement shown being as follows Eat Drink and l/Vear and the signs on theicorresponding sign plates in thehousings g are specific advertisements under each of said headings, in the arrangement shown, as will also be seen in Fig. 2;

It will be understood that when my improved advertising device or apparatus is designed for use at night it will be provided with suitable means for illuminating the various signs or advertisements thereon, and by means of my improvement- I provide a sign or advertising device or apparatus which will command and attract attention at all times, whether in the day time or at night time, and a large number of articles may thus be advertised at a comparatively slight expense.

lily invention is not limited to the exact details of the construction herein shown and described, and various changes therein and modifications thereof may be made, within the scope of theappended claims, without departing from the spirit of my invention or sacrificing its advantages, and I reserve the right to make all such alterations therein and modifications thereof as fairly come within the scope of the appended claims.

Having fully described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. An advertising apparatus involving an upright body or frame, parallel rotatable shafts mounted in the top and bottom portions thereof;; the sides of the body or frame being provided with vertical panels, a plurality of endless belt devices mounted on said shafts and. corresponding in number i ,with said panels, horizontally arranged ad- Copies of this patent may be qbtsine d fpr 20th day of August 1912.

vertising members movably connected with said endless belt devices and movable vertically through said panels and around said shafts and consisting of housings having openings inthe front thereof and movable plates placed in said housings and one side face of which is provided with two rows of advertisements reversely arranged," said plates being movable laterally in said housings through a space the width of which is approximately the sameas the transverse width of one of said advertisements and of the openings in the front ofthe housings.

2. An advertising apparatus involving an upright body or frame aving parallel shafts and an endless belt-device movable around said shafts and provided with horizontally arranged advertising members movably connected therewith and consisting of housings having openings in the" ant -thereof, and movable pl'atesplaced in d housings and one side face o fx'wliich 18: provided with two rows of advertisements" 'reversely arranged, said plates being movable later-- ally in said housings through a space the width of which is approximately the same as the transverse width of'one of "said advertisements and of the open front of said housings."

3. An advertising apparatu; v. "lIig aIl uprightbody s or frame havmg parallcl shafts and an endless beItQdevic-e"movable around said shafts and provided v'vith horizontally arranged advertising members movably connected therewith and consisting of housings having openings in the front thereof, and movable plates placedin said housings and one side face of which 'p'ifovided with two rows of advertise)? r vqrsely arranged, said plates'being able laterally in said housings through a space the width of which is 1' al ly tlje same as the transverse widtho the of said advertisements and offgtheiopenings in the front of said housings, .thefltopofthe frame being also provided with a stationary part beneath which the endless belt device is movable, and on the opposite sides of which are printed headings indicating the different classes of articles thenam'es'of which are placed on said advertising member's.

In testimony that I as my invention I hav signed m'ji name-in presence of the subscribing witnesses this five cents each, by addressing; the Commissioner of intents,

Washington, D. G.

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